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Configure direct ethernet connection between pc's

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First take an Ethernet cable (Cat 5e) and plug one end into one PC and the other end into the other PC.  You don't need a crossover cable or any other special tools... that's old stuff :)

 

Then do this on both computers.  One should be 3.1 and the other 3.2

 

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Can someone tell me the trick to connect two pc's as client to host to play over lan. I want to have PC A be the host and PC B be the client.

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First take an Ethernet cable (Cat 5e) and plug one end into one PC and the other end into the other PC.  You don't need a crossover cable or any other special tools... that's old stuff :)

 

Then do this on both computers.  One should be 3.1 and the other 3.2

 

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5 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

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will i need to disable other network cards in order to make this work?
EDIT: like turn off my wireless card on PC B and other ethernet card on PC A

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2 minutes ago, Colt_0pz said:

will i need to disable other network cards in order to make this work?
EDIT: like turn off my wireless card on PC B and other ethernet card on PC A

That's recommended so that Windows and the programs you're running don't have to guess what IP or interface they should launch the server on.  Minecraft in particular is terrible with this.  But if you disable all the other interfaces on both machines while doing this, you shouldn't have any problems.

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4 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

That's recommended so that Windows and the programs you're running don't have to guess what IP or interface they should launch the server on.  Minecraft in particular is terrible with this.  But if you disable all the other interfaces on both machines while doing this, you shouldn't have any problems.

Thanks. turning off my other network cards did the trick

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